Cinema Shame on Star Wars
Join Cinema Shame as Raquel watches Star Wars for the first time! “Raquel Stecher is joined by her long-suffering husband Carlos to discuss how she finally viewed Star Wars on her own terms.”
“I’ve Heard The Mer-Man Singing”
Friend of the Gutter Jessica Ritchey writes about The Toys That Made Us, the fragility of masculinity and how we got where we are. “’The stories we tell matter’ is usually meant as a piece of feel good puffery. But there’s a real warning in that statement too. […]
50 Crime Thrillers by Women
Ann Cleeves, Val McDermid and Dreda Say Mitchell suggest some sweet thrillers for your reading pleasure!
“Love App-tually: Grindr and Queer Cinema”
At the Los Angeles Times Review of Books, Kyle Turner writes about Grindr’s presence in Queer cinema. “The first time I recall hearing Grindr talked about in a film was in Andrew Haigh’s Weekend (2011). Haigh’s enchanting Brief Encounter–like romance challenges its two leads — working-class gay men […]
Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi
For those of us who did not grow up watching Bollywood films (and maybe even for those of you who did, depending on how closely an adult monitored what you were watching when or after this film came out), there is a particular threshold that each of us […]
“Get Ready For The Big Chop: Digressions On When Pro-Wrestlers Change Their Hair And What It Means”
Claire Napier has shared her digital zine anthology, Get Ready For The Big Chop: Digressions On When Pro-Wrestlers Change Their Hair And What It Means! You can read it for free here.
The Cultural Gutter 